WPF/Silverlight Insiders

Dan Wahlin (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Silverlight and ASP.NET) founded The Wahlin Group which specializes in .NET, Silverlight and SharePoint consulting and training solutions. He also created the XML for ASP.NET Developers Web site, which focuses on using ASP.NET, XML, AJAX, Silverlight and Web Services in Microsoft’s .NET platform. Dan is on the INETA Speaker’s Bureau, speaks at conferences and user groups around the world and is recognized as an authority on .NET technologies. Dan has written several books on .NET including Professional Silverlight 2 Development, Professional ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX, ASP.NET 2.0 MVP Hacks and Tips and XML for ASP.NET Developers. Dan blogs at http://weblogs.asp.net/dwahlin. When he’s not writing code, articles or books, Dan enjoys writing and recording music and playing golf and basketball with his wife and kids.

Blog: http://weblogs.asp.net/dwahlin

Jeff Prosise is cofounder of Wintellect (www.wintellect.com), a developer consulting and education firm that provides services to companies all over the world. His most recent book, Programming Microsoft .NET, was published by Microsoft Press in 2002, and his writings appear regularly in MSDN Magazine. A reformed engineer who discovered after college that there’s more to life than computing loads on mounting brackets, today Jeff’s professional life revolves totally around ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, and Silverlight. In his leisure time, Jeff is known to go out of his way to get wet in some of the world’s best dive spots and to spend way too much time building and flying R/C aircraf.

Blog: http://www.wintellect.com/CS/blogs/jprosise/default.aspx

David is the president of Colorado Technology Consultants, Inc and is a hands on technology consultant with solid management experience in privately held and Fortune 500 companies and has over 15 years of experience in the IT industry.

David is also the leader of the South Colorado .NET User group

Blog : http://blog.davidyack.com/

Richard Costall (MVP, MCSD.NET) has over 17 years development experience and works for 1st Software, a Microsoft Gold Partner, and the UK’s leading software solution for Financial Adviser and Intermediaries, designing and implementing IFA applications in the financial services sector. Previously specializing in VB, XML/XSLT, COM, ASP and MSMQ, Richard now lives and breathes the awesome world of .Net and in particular ASP.NET (including 2.0) Richard we the Midlands regional coordinator for VBUG (Visual Basic User Group) for 5 1/2 years before co-founding NxtGenUG – The Next Generation User Group.

When not in .Net land, Richard enjoys relaxing at home with his wife and two sons or ultimately jetting off to Walt Disney World, Florida, for a trip on the Tower of Terror

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John, a Senior .NET Consultant with ASPSOFT, has been working with various Microsoft distributed architectures since 1995. He has enterprise experience architecting and developing with .NET technologies including ASP.NET as well as WebForms using both C# and VB.NET. He is a baseball fanatic who spends most of his summer nights rooting for the Yankees with his family and his faithful dog, Kadi. John has authored or co-authored several books on ADO, ADO.NET, XML, and SQL Server, has hosted MSDN WebCasts, is the author of a the Data Points column in MSDN Magazine and can often be found speaking at industry conferences such as VSLive

Blog : http://johnpapa.net/

Matthew MacDonald is an author, educator, and MCSD developer who has a passion for emerging technologies. He’s a regular writer for developer journals, and the author of over a dozen books for publishers including Apress, O’Reilly, Microsoft Press, McGraw-Hill, and Wrox.

Matthew lives in Toronto with his wife Faria and daughter Maya. You can contact him at www.prosetech.com.

Blog : www.prosetech.com

Laurent Duveau is the co-founder of RunAtServer Consulting. He has more than 12 years experience in web development and is now specialized in Microsoft technologies such as ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight. He is part of the Montreal .NET Community board and a regular attendee in local activities, also speaking at User Groups, Code Camps and Microsoft events. Laurent is Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) since 2004, he likes to teach on .NET technologies (web dev, SQL Server and languages). He was an instructor at Microsoft TechEd convention in Orlando. He also writes technical articles for www.techheadbrothers.com and www.asp.net and is an active contributor in the asp.net and silverlight.net online forums. Laurent was awarded MVP ASP.NET by Microsoft in 2007 and 2008 and is certified MCSD.NET, MCTS, MCPD, MCITP and MCT.

Blog : http://weblogs.asp.net/lduveau/

I work as a senior interactive developer for IdentityMine, one of the leading companies (and Gold Partner) for Microsoft technologies such as Windows Presentation Foundation, Silverlight, Surface, Windows 7 and generally User Experience. I was IdentityMine’s European branch’s first employee, based in Zurich, where I live with my wife Chi Meei and my two daughters Alise and Laeticia.

In October 2008, the book “Silverlight 2 Unleashed” that I wrote was published at Sams. This book is a complete tutorial about Silverlight and filled with code samples and illustration in full color.

Originally an Electronics engineer, I achieved a postgrade study in Software Engineering in 1999. In the past, I worked at Siemens from 1996, where I helped introduce WPF and other .NET 3.5 technologies worldwide. My job involved developing with the mentioned technologies, training and coaching my colleagues, coordinating and integrating the graphics designers’ work, and relationships with Microsoft. Prior to that, I wrote embedded C/C++, and then moved to desktop computers in Java, JavaScript and eventually .NET (desktop and ASP.NET).

Privately, I code in ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight and WPF. I blog on http://blog.galasoft.ch and write on http://www.galasoft.ch where I publish articles, prototypes and demos related to the mentioned technologies. In 2008, I earned a MCTS for WPF. 2009 is my 3rd year as a Microsoft MVP.

Blog : http://www.galasoft.ch/

Bill Reiss is active in the Silverlight community through his tutorials, public speaking events, and on the forums. He presents on various topics related to Silverlight and XNA Game Studio and recently presented a session on Silverlight game development for XNA GameFest 2008.

Bill’s tutorials on Silverlight game development can be found at http://silverlightgames101.net.

Bill is a Silverlight MVP, a member of the Silverlight Insiders and currently is authoring a Beginning Silverlight book for Manning Publication

Blog : http://silverlightgames101.net

Michael Washington is a ASP.NET, C#, and Visual Basic programmer. He has extensive knowledge in process improvement, billing systems, and student information systems. He is a Microsoft MVP. He is also a DotNetNuke Core member and has been involved with DotNetNuke for many years. He is the author of numerous DotNetNuke modules and tutorials. He is one of the founding members of the Southern California DotNetNuke Users group. He has a son, Zachary and resides in Los Angeles with his wife Valerie.

Blog : http://openlightgroup.net/Blog/…Default.aspx

It’s nine years that Andrea Boschin works in the IT. His activity begins as a consultant for UNISYS Corporation in Milan. After this he moves to the portals and CMS development with ASP technologies. Since 2002 he works with the ASP.NET platform on Enterprise Portals. He writes on national IT magazines, for local user groups and in his weblog. In community fields he is the founder and member of XeDotNet, a local user group focalized on .NET technologies. He works and lives in Treviso.

Blog : Silverlight Playground

Dave Campbell is a .NET developer currently involved in web database design at a client facility in Scottsdale, Arizona. Dave’s first code was written in 1967, but the real work started after a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering in 1975 and 1977 respectively. Independently of the platform or language, Dave always gravitated toward the User Interface, therefore Windows UI was a logical progression, and now into Silverlight. Dave is better known by his site name which is WynApse. WynApse came about when there was a distinction made between DOS-Apps and Win-Apps. You can find a steady stream of Silverlight Articles and Tutorials on WynApse.com.

Dave’s blog has become a staple of daily reading for many Silverlight enthusiasts because of the daily “SilverlightCream” blog posts originating there. That blog series has led to a http://www.silverlightcream.com website where the articles from the blog are archived, tagged, and made searchable.

Dave is an active member of AZGroups.com (Arizona .NET User Groups), one of the largest and most active user group communities in the country. Dave also is the owner of the Phoenix Silverlight User’s Group, the first User Group dedicated solely to Silverlight. Dave also maintains the Phoenix Silverlight User Group website.

Blog : Wynapse

Chad Campbell is a Microsoft MVP and solutions architect. He has been developing enterprise-level web applications with a wide variety of technologies since 1999. Beginning with the initial public release of what would become Silverlight in 2006, Chad hit the ground running and has not looked back. He holds MCSD and MCTS certifications. In addition, Chad has a BS degree from Purdue University where he focused his studies on computer science and minored in psychology.

Blog : http://cornucopia30.blogspot.com/

Pete Brown is a Microsoft MVP for Silverlight, an INETA speaker, and an Architect/Project Manager for Applied Information Sciences in the Washington, DC area.

From his first sprite graphics and custom character sets on the Commodore 64 to 3d modeling and design through to Silverlight, Surface, Xna, and WPF, Pete has always had a deep interest in programming, design, and user experience. His involvement in Silverlight goes back to the Silverlight 1.1 alpha application that he co-wrote and put into production in July 2007. Pete has been programming for fun since 1984, and professionally since 1992.

In his spare time, Pete enjoys programming, blogging, designing and building his own woodworking projects, and raising his two children with his wife in the suburbs of Maryland.

Blog : http://www.irritatedVowel.com/Blog

Gerard Leblanc is the author of more than 20 books on C, Assembler, C++ and now C#. These books were published by Editions Eyrolles, Paris.
See his books’s web site : www.editions-eyrolles.com/auteurs/Leblanc and his personal website http://www.gleblanc.eu, which includes a blog on Silverligh.

Blog : http://www.gleblanc.eu

Daron Yöndem has been a professional web developer since 2002 and Windows Interface developer since 1998, and is working with VB.NET and ASP.Net since early 2002. He has been working with VB 3.0, 4.0 and 6.0 since 1998.
Nowadays Daron is working hard with Silverlight 1.0 and 2.0 development, WPF and especially Expression Studio. He is the Turkey Lead of INETA and hosting many free seminars and trainings all around the MEA.

Blog : http://daron.yondem.com/default.aspx

Hello!,I am Vikram Pendse,Working as Freelance IT Consultant at Pune and responsible for design and execution of POCs. I started my professional career from 2005,I completed my Masters in Computer Management from IndSearch,Pune and Electronics was my specialization at graduation while doing Bach.of Science course.

I am right now actively working with Pune User Group (http://www.puneusergroup.org) as Asst. Manager and core active member which is supported by Microsoft and INETA.I do arrange User Group meetings, taking sessions and many more things both online as well as offline.

Silverlight and ASP.NET are my core areas of interest.I have also executed large scale Web Applications for HealthCare and Hospitals which includes Product Development and things like implementation of HL7 standards.Created POCs for many Banking projects and HealthCare applications.

When I don’t available at my laptop you can find me watching TV and movies,biking and hanging around with friends.I always keep playing with new Technology and gadgets.

Blog : http://pendsevikram.blogspot.com

Infographiste dans les métiers de la post-production et du multimédia de 1998 à 2000. Co-fondateur de l’E.E.S.A. (École Européenne Supérieure d’Animation) et responsable des formations jusqu’à janvier 2003. Webmaster Flash Freelance jusqu’en 2004 puis Concepteur d’applications Web 2.0 et responsable technique sur les outils de mobilité pour la société Atos Origin jusqu’à fin 2006. Actuellement formateur chez Regart.net et spécialiste des technologies du Web pour les plates-formes Microsoft Silverlight / WPF et Adobe.

UCAI leader, I’m in charge of research and development. I accompany our clients in implementing innovative projects based on Microsoft technologies. Project initiator Silverlight Extensions, I share my passion with the community. I am Silverlight MVP,

Blog : http://www.ucaya.com/blog/

Joel Neubeck is a Principal Consultant with the development practice at Neudesic, a Microsoft Gold Certified partner. Prior to joining Neudesic, Joel led a talented team of software engineers and interactive developers as the Director of Technology, for a top interactive marketing agency in the US. With over 14 years of experience in development, Joel displays a passion for engineering innovative interactive solutions. His diverse background includes expertise in Silverlight, WPF and ASP.NET. For the past two years, Joel has been named one of Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professionals (MVP) for Silverlight.

András is the founder, lead developer, architect, idea-man and CEO of Response Ltd (www.response.hu) – a small, 6 years old ISV company, with 6 developers and designers, based in Hungary. András is extremely passionate about technology, user experience, and how technology can be brought closer to people (he coined the term “grandmother’s computing”)

Blog : http://dotneteers.net/blogs/vbandi/

Having spent the better part of the last decade building enterprise class business applications I’ve grown to appreciate that last mile to the end user, the UI and the User Experience. These days I devote myself to all things UI/UX related!

You’ll find me actively promoting Silverlight and Expression Blend through Twitter, my blog posts, online communities and forums and when time permits thru speaking engagements

Blog : http://www.cynergysystems.com/blogs/page/josefajardo

I am an eager software developer with a varied background.
For many years I worked in the gaming industry and worked on platforms such as Playstation, Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, Xbox and Windows/DirectX.

In 2002 I changed “profession” to doing enterprise application development. My heart has been close to Microsoft technologies through all years, and my favorite programming language these days is C#.

Also worked with Java and a lot with C++, to mention but a few.
I also love being involved with developer community work, and is the chairman of Game Camp and NNUG Vestfold Chapter.

More details about my background can be found at:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/einari

Blog : http://www.ingebrigtsen.info

Page Brooks is a Senior Software Developer for ACS Technologies, the leading provider of information management solutions for churches, schools, and other faith-based organizations. With over 9 years experience in web development, Page enjoys delivering successful web products that make a difference. Page holds a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from Francis Marion University and is a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD). As an active member of the .NET community, Page is a co-founder of the Pee Dee Area .NET User Group in Florence, SC and can also be found at many of the regional developer events throughout the Carolina.

Blog : http://pagebrooks.com/

Rob Eisenberg is a .NET architect and developer working out of Tallahassee, FL. He is a partner with Christopher Bennage at Blue Spire Consulting, a software development firm specializing in .NET technologies, user experience, and interface design. Rob got his start with computer programming at the age of nine, when he thoroughly fell in love with his family’s new Comodore 64. His fascination with programming started with the Comodore Basic language, then moved to Q and QuickBasic and quickly continued on to C, C++ and presently C# and the .NET Framework. Rob publishes technical articles regularly at devlicio.us and has spoken at regional events and to companies concerning .NET technologies and Agile software practices. He is coauthor of Sam’s Teach Yourself WPF in 24 Hours and is the architect and lead developer of the Caliburn Application Framework for WPF and Silverlight.

Blog : http://devlicio.us/blogs/rob_eisenberg/default.aspx

Andy Beaulieu is a professional software developer and trainer with over 15 years of experience building applications for Windows and the Web. Located in Syracuse, New York, he is well versed in many Microsoft technologies including Silverlight, ASP.NET, ADO.NET and WindowsForms. Andy has worked on many applications for the financial, medical, and scientific communities and is a member of the WPF and Silverlight Insiders group. He is also involved in the .NET community and is the Group Leader for the Central New York .NET Developers Group, as well as the INETA Membership Mentor for much of the Northeastern United States.

Blog : http://www.andybeaulieu.com/

As a recognized expert on Silverlight 2 and Silverlight MVP, Erik regularly trains and consults with companies around the world. He has worked with Silverlight since the 1.0 public release and on such projects as the Heroes happen {here} site, Microsoft internal training materials and other Silverlight 2 projects. Erik and his wife created the popular Silverlight podcast (The Sparkling Client Podcast).

Blog : http://www.sparklingclient.com/

David has been building web based distributed applications for over ten years professionally, evolving over the past 5 years into a User eXperience Architect on Silverlight at IdentityMine, Inc. His passion is building User eXperiences that are elegant graceful and easy to use. Career highlight’s including the Silverlight Bill G demo at Teched 08 and the ET Emmy site for the Silverlight 1 launch and Emmy Awards. In his spare time David is the executive officer of the Seattle Designer Developer Interaction Group as well as playing with kids, travel, reef tanks and lego robots.

Blog : http://hackingsilverlight.blogspot.com/

John Stockton, Senior RIA Developer, Ascentium. John Stockton currently builds Silverlight applications for major companies such as Microsoft and T-Mobile. Previously he built web applications for Fortune 500 companies like General Electric, NEC, National City Bank and Sherwin Williams in addition to government agencies like the Ways and Means Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. John is a co-author of Silverlight 2 in Action, a regular speaker at industry events, a founder of special interest groups and is proud to contribute to the development of new technology through various Silverlight Insider programs.

Blog : http://tocode.blogspot.com/

Jonas is a senior consultant at Capgemini in Trondheim. He has broad experience and in–depth knowledge of the .NET Framework, ASP.NET, WPF, Silverlight and the C# programming language.

Jonas has worked on several projects using various Microsoft technologies. Currently he is spending most of his time exploring rich client technologies like Windows Presentation Foundation and Silverlight.

Jonas is an active member of and contributor to the .NET developer community. He is an experienced speaker from industry events like TechEd, REMIX and MSDN Live. In 2006 Jonas was nominated Microsoft Regional Director for his contributions and involvement with the Microsoft developer community, and in 2009 he received a Silverlight Microsoft MVP award.

Blog : http://jonas.follesoe.no/

Currently I’m working at CompletIT and running SilverlightShow.net as a project manager and developer. I also work on some non-public enterprise web based applications in the sphere of medical software.

As a blogger I write about the problems I face in my everyday work and the new technologies that are coming up.

Blog : http://weblogs.asp.net/emilstoichev/

Alex Golesh is an international expert in Silverlight and WPF and serves as Silverlight Lead and Senior Consultant at Sela Group.
He is currently consulting in various enterprises in Israel and worldwide, architecting and developing RIA and Smart Client based solutions.

Alex is known as one of the top Silverlight experts in Israel. He conducts lectures and workshops for developers and enterprises who want to specialize in RIA and Smart Client development, and leads the architecture and development process of many RIA and Smart Client projects.

Blog : http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/alex_golesh/

Braulio Diez works in Avanade, Technical writer for the .net magazine Dotnetmania, webmaster of the sites DB Schema Editor and Tipsdotnet, and he is member and speaker of the Málaga .net community.

Blog : http://geekswithblogs.net/braulio

Of late am associated with Xuenn Singapore as an IT consultant, responsible for building the UI/App layer for their product using WPF, Prism, Silverlight apart from other .Net Technologies.
Prior to venturing into this, I was creating a niche in Web Application Development using ASP.NET, AJAX, Javascript, etc.

I had always believed in the concept of “Sharing Knowledge” which is the key for one to build his in-depth understanding of the technology. That’s mainly the reason why I always try to participate in public forums and local newsgroup for helping fellow technologists and also get beneficial as learning is a two-way process.

Being a member of Microsoft WPF/Silverlight Insider team, I really enjoy playing with early drops of Silverlight and giving my feedback to the Team.

Blog : http://michaelsync.net

I started the journey in the programming field from flash action script , and now I also interested in delving into the .net Develop. These things attract me so much, I am deeply absorbed by them.

I work as an interactive developer in the digital department in a 4A agency, my job is to build RIA website, touch apps etc. It is so fantastic that I can do the job I love so much.

And I want show my appreciation to wpf/e——now she is named as Silverlight. She is so charming and cute that I cannot help to falling love with her.

This is the first time I won the ” MVP” award(July, 2009). I am very honored.

Blog : http://nasa.cnblogs.com/

Bryant Likes has been developing applications on the Microsoft platform since 1996. He currently works as a User Experience Developer for Avanade where he has delivered applications for customers in the Software, Health Care, Entertainment, Financial, and Insurance industries that range from Silverlight enhanced websites to complex enterprise integrations. He co-authored SQL Server XML Distilled and is an active blogger covering a wide range of topics including Silverlight, ASP.NET MVC, and .NET 3.5. Bryant was awarded the MVP award for SQL Server and XML five times and has been a Microsoft Certified Professional since 1998, holding over ten Microsoft certifications including MCPD and MCITP.

Blog : http://blogs.sqlxml.org/BryantLikes/

Ambrose is a Microsoft MVP, INETA Speaker, and works at Infragistics, leaders in UI and UX tools, components, and services. He’s an author of numerous articles, co-author of Wrox Silverlight 3, Silverlight 1.0, Professional ADO.NET 2, and ASP.NET 2.0 MVP Hacks, and has spoken at various user groups, events, and conferences.

Blog : http://dotnettemplar.net/

Robby Ingebretsen is a user experience designer and developer with a singular purpose: making great ideas real. As founder and principal of Pixel Lab, Robby helps clients make stuff — especially the sort of stuff that gets made from the unique full-bodied blend of a little design love and little engineering kung-fu.

Blog : http://nerdplusart.com/

Corey Schuman is a Silverlight developer who concentrates on combining quality application architecture with highly interactive UI experiences. His experience in Silverlight extends from the first release in September 2007. At Schematic, Corey worked on projects such as the NBCOlympics.com Silverlight video player, HSN.tv, and WPF kiosks for the Library of Congress. He is currently working with the talented team at IQ Interactive, on an exciting Silverlight application, can’t give too much away .

Corey is actively involved in the community by speaking, authoring Silverlight books, blogging, and organizing the Atlanta Silverlight Meetup. Publications include the Microsoft Expression Blend 2 a Visual Quick Start Guide, and is currently co-authoring O’Reilly’s Programming Silverlight 3 with Jesse Liberty.

Blog : http://www.85turns.com/

[No Information so far. Will update when I get the reply from Rick.]

Blog : http://www.cynergysystems.com/blogs/page/rickbarraza

I’m Jeff Paries. I’m currently employed as the Lead Experience Developer for Waggener Edstrom Worldwide near Portland, Oregon. I’ve written a few books and a good number of magazine articles on 3D animation, and am the author of two Silverlight books – Foundation Silverlight 2 Animation and Foundation Silverlight 3 Animation. I am also a Microsoft MVP for Silverlight.

If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions for something you’d like to see, are interested in having me speak, or just want to talk animation, feel free to email me: jeff at designwithsilverlight dot com

Blog: http://designwithsilverlight.com

Silverlight/WPF Architect, Teacher of Computer Science labs, New Tech enthusiast

Blog : http://www.davidezordan.net/blog/

helping spread the Silverlight in China overseas!

Blog : http://www.cnblogs.com/terrylee